On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 09:55:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:37:23PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > OK, my fault. > > > > A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to xdm. > > When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go: > > > > gdm3.serviceJob for gdm.service failed. > > > > Looked for solution in man systemctl, found reset-failed command. Tried > > > > systemctl reset-failed gdm.service > > > > exit code was 0 but problem was not fixed. > > > > tried apt-get install --reinstall gdm3 > > > > problem not fixed. > > > > What to do? Reinstall jessie? Continue experimenting with systemctl > > commands? > > > > Any suggestions? > > purged and reinstalled gdm3. Restarted gdm3 and again gdm.service > failed. > > The output of journalctl -xn is
journal output omitted. See previous posting. Following previous suggestions installed both xdm and kdm. If default-display-manager is set to xdm when xdm is started I get the Debian login window and can only login as root. The login is successful to the gnome desktop. Tried to switch users but could not. Exited. If the default-display-manager is set to kdm when kdm is started I get the kdm login window. If I try to login with my user name my password is not recognized. If I try to login as root the login is not allowed. If the default-display-manager is set to gdm3 I get the message gdm.service failed and the journal output as in the previous posting. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150207213723.ga24...@tomgeorge.info > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150208145520.ga22...@tomgeorge.info > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150208152220.ga22...@tomgeorge.info